MIRROR - Dawn at the Cathedral of Cuiraécen

[X-DM Jon]

Aye it can; as an AoE spell it works as Gray pointed out, but targeted it works like you want it to 

I like the narrative; maybe a little too much, but hey, we can live with that.

 Yeah, sorry about turning Baron Tshalen into Baron Cartman... Or that other Southpark guy with the Hitler hairdo who freaks out "I AM ABOVE THE LAW!" lol couldn't help myself...

[DM B]

Actually Alex is scoring points for excellent RP, while Jon isn't; he's banned from using any more SP references today 

[X-DM Jon]

Dammit!

[X-Tornilen/SM (Alexander)]

And yet, I am the one dying.

[X-DM Jon]

Yeah, sorry about that... 

[X-MOC/Leman States (Even)]

Yeah, sorry about that... 

My detect lie is flaring up like mad here...
 

[X-DM Jon]

Bastard! 

[DM B]

Good night from DM Bjørn here...I'll be back for a few hours tomorrow, and then away to Tromsø.

[X-Haelyn's Aegis/RK (Andy)]

Enjoy...

Quick everyone, bribe Jon for freebies! 

[X-DM Jon]

I'm cheap. 

 I'm taking a break as well, the story continues tomorrow. Yall feel free to chip in!

[X-Roesone/ARR (Robert)]

And its an event like this that starts intercontinental wars hehe

[X-Haelyn's Aegis/RK (Andy)]

Well, technically this is a brawl not a duel - most of the normal code duello is being ignored - everything from delay, apology, grant of offense, seconds, etc - the swordmage has been very sporting both as a player and character.

The green knight is very lucky that the swordmage didn't demand that the weapons be spells (the first insult clearly being from the baron she gets to choose under most of the codes, and the others generally let the ranking person pick which is again her) - and the baron very lucky she allowed the switch at all...

From my perspective Robhan is fairly impartial - the Sword Mage is a wizard he doesn't know well, the Green Knight a warrior whose honour he doesn't want to injure.  Tornilen with a new ruler might be more amenable to godliness and it isn't as if the mad baron will get to run it anyway...

Of course that wouldn't stop the Pontiff simply declaring the duel over, he;s already ignoring the clergy/noble divide already, and I'm not sure if he technically out-ranks a baron to demand the duel is paused while they gut the baron... assuming that the Sword Mage would let anyone interfere.

[X-DM Jon]

Spells were allowed and used. But the Green Knight has protection up his arse against it.
 And the Swordmage isn't a bona fide duchess, she just calls herself that - like Ghieste, but she hasn't gotten any kind of real peer review up until recently - and by the priests no less, which is a good first step, but also seen as suspect by the nobility.
 She is, as Tshalen says, a commoner. A very powerful commoner albeit, but not a "real" Duchess. Only the true nobility can accept new nobles - i.e. the right name.

[X-Roesone/ARR (Robert)]

I'd reply to Robhan but seeing that I'm in the middle of a sprint towards the Green knight that would be stretching the believability just a bit now

[X-Haelyn's Aegis/RK (Andy)]

Sigh, its too late for me to stick around, but take as a given that the complete ignorance of the various laws (a healthy man of inferior rank insults a lady and gets to call weapons?) is really annoying Robbie

And the fact that the Sword Mage allowed the switch, the choice of weapons (hmm, I call reciting the 20 common spells of Lorien) gives her huge moral clout.

Robbie can't call out the baron - he is a) a priest and b) probably doesn't rank him anyway ignoring priestly rank - but if murder is done he's more than happy to lug people to the docks...

And actually Auramel as a noble who out-ranks the baron can just order the duel stopped - or demand the right to a) swap for the duchess (a woman) and b) simultaneously refuse to accept the baron's substitution (the baron being the party causing insult by ordering another man to beat a woman of noble rank) - making it a very one sided duel that would earn him much kudos - and the green knight would have to hope that the legal court - likely headed by the pontiff (not exactly impartial but then who is) - found in his favour if he did anything.

GN has won the moral victory of sword vs spell already - and won a duel with the brother if drago has any guts - so he's got nothing to gain by interfering.